The judge, Kabir Muhammad, gave the accused an option of fine and ordered him to pay N70,000 compensation or face 12-month jail term.
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The judge, Kabir Muhammad, gave the accused an option of fine and ordered him to pay N70,000 compensation or face 12-month jail term.
Magistrate O. O. Latunji said she sentenced the teacher based on evidence against him by the police as well as his guilty plea.
His release followed the clemency granted by Governor Ademola Adeleke to him and 53 other convicts.
The monarch, along with Akibu Abioye, Yisa Akolapi, Rasidi Ayandiran and Sarafadeen Abioye were docked before Justice Kudirat Akano.
The suspects, alongside one other person, were arraigned before a Kwara State Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital.
According to reports, Udokwere, who was the National Chairman, Retired Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, was murdered by armed robbers who invaded his residence on June 22, 2024, and took away his gun.
AGFCS is a loose network of individuals and organisations working on different issues to defend the country’s civic space.
He was released from his 11 years imprisonment following pro-bono litigation by Avocats Sans Frontières France.
Jonah was arrested in 2016 at his friend’s naming ceremony and was charged with three other guys thereafter.
The defendants, whose addresses were not provided during trial, are facing a count charge of defilement.
The court in Saint Petersburg found him guilty of “attempted terrorism’’ for throwing Molotov cocktails at the buildings of two district defence offices a few months ago in protest against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The defendants were remanded on two-count charge of conspiracy and assault following their arraignment on Friday.
The primary objective of this proposal is to introduce a comprehensive system of prison electronic tags for inmates awaiting trial.
A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a 27-year-old trader, Ali Badamosi, to nine months imprisonment for stealing a pressing iron and precious stones valued at N16,000 and N500,000 respectively from his neighbour.
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court in Benue State on Wednesday remanded three teenagers: Terngu Tse, Akaa Samuel and Samuel Gawon, for alleged conspiracy and membership of an unlawful society.
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 37-year-old man, Taiwo Ishola, for killing his younger brother’s two children.
Fifty-three-year-old Sunday Dosunmu, earlier arrested for stealing parked cars, has been re-arrested again for the same offence in Ogun State.
The officials of Nigeria Correctional Service, who were in court to convey the embattled suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to their custody left without taking the defendant, on Tuesday.
This followed a remand proceeding preferred against him by the Rivers State Police Command on Wednesday.